In this poignant drama, the owner of a guesthouse on a small Caribbean island confronts her family's painful past. An impending hurricane compels Mama Aida and her guests to take shelter in an old plantation building. There she encounters the spirits of her slave ancestors who were brutally tortured and murdered after leading an unsuccessful slave rebellion.

Drama 110 minutes8M, 2FThe Draft explores the tumult of the Vietnam War era through the real-life stories of 10 young Americans – eight men and two women – whose lives were shaped and forever changed by the military draft in the U.S. at that time. Enhanced dramatically by music and sound clips from the period, the play chronicles the choices they made when confronted with the draft and the impact of those choices then and since.

Matt Barnett harbors a dark family secret from his childhood. Returning home to Vermont years later when his mother is dying, Matt seeks truth and healing – and finds a future he never expected. A story of love, resilience, loyalty, Indigenous wisdom, and hope among the stars.

Joe Bell, an African-American Renaissance man, has spent 14 years in jail for burning down the Gilded Age mansion where he once worked as a tour guide. Determined to prove him innocent, Susanna Hatch, a young white law student, visits Joe in a prison psychiatric unit and learns some wrenching lessons about the irrational power of love.

Winner of the 2007 Stanley Drama Award

Winner of the 2007 Arthur W. Stone New Play Award

"A beautifully crafted work"-Greenville News, South Carolina

"A compelling portrait of a love affair thwarted because of class, snobbery and racial pressures.The writing is lucid with terrific characterization."-Literary Team at The Bush Theatre, London, U.K. which recommends the play as a "bush pick" on its play publishing website (www.bushgreen.org)

Can true love really conquer all? That's the question Susanna Hatch, a white law student from a wealthy family, asks herself as she agonizes over whether to make a commitment to her working-class Puerto Rican boyfriend. Susanna believes she'll find the answer from Joe Bell, an African-American man who's been in jail for 14 years for burning down a Gilded Age mansion owned by her grandmother. Joe was a tour guide there, and the two became lovers and soul mates. Convinced that Joe must be innocent, Susanna sets out to prove it--and to prove to herself that her own unlikely union has a future.

It's a growing phenomenon that no one wants to talk about: White people are turning Black. On the eve of his wedding, Alan Guthrie learns it's about to happen to him. And he's freaked--not least because his prospective father-in-law would never allow his daughter to marry a Black man. Solution? Persuade his identical twin brother, who is gay, to impersonate him at the ceremony. The desperate ruse launches Alan and his co-conspirators on a madcap pre-nuptial adventure involving organic vegetables, ventriloquism, a golfing accident--and some serious identity issues.

Winner of the 2010 New Play Festival, Centre Stage-South Carolina, Greenville, SC

On the eve of their departure to Guatemala to pick up their newly adopted daughter, a middle-class American couple find themselves suspected of a terrorist act--blowing up their own car. When the devastating truth finally emerges, it challenges all their assumptions about truth, democracy and the American way.

"The play is swathed in absurdity but the material is woven from the fabric of reality.â"-Boston Phoenix

Desperate to win a statewide contest, a community theatre company casts a man claiming to be the Roman god Mars to star in their production of a Noel Coward comedy. A CIA plot, a teenager who speaks fluent Latin, Hollywood's embrace of "reality theater"--It's all here in this hilarious spoof on militarism and celebrity culture.

It is 1979, and Boston is in racial turmoil over school de-segregation. Serena Fox, an African-American college student, becomes captivated by the ideas and passion of black abolitionist David Walker, and she launches a campaign to memorialize him and learn the truth about his death. The campaign – and the backlash it provokes – puts Serena on an emotionally wrenching path to self-discovery.

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My new full-length play, The Growing Stone, is scheduled for two readings in the coming weeks that I hope will advance its development. The play -- a dark-secret family drama set in Vermont -- was one of five plays selected for a rehearsed staged reading at the Detroit New Works Festival on April 27 and 28, organized by Outvisible Theatre in Detroit, MI.

2018 has gotten off to an encouraging start. My new short play, Notice, will premiere at the New Voices Festival of Greenbrier Valley Theatre, the state theater of West Virginia at Lewisburg, WV, in February.